When traveling to Benthelea, Leah's hometown, the Velite girl tells to her new husband, Thorin, the first tale of her legendary ancestor, Liska Mitsel-eman, and her rising from the depths of slavery to warriordom, and also the tales of the people related with her, mainly Rial, Pyndan, Markree, Shaygin, Elishaa and Mother Sanna.
This sub-arc contains examples of:
- Anachronism Stew: Asumming the history of the planet Katmandu follows more or less the same road as Earth history, dice games didn't exist in the Precolombine era, as they were invented in Europe.
- Artistic License – Military: Also overlaps with Rock Beats Laser: In Real Life, the whole raider assault on the Highland tribe could had worked on the favor of the attackers rather than the other way around, since the raiders had much better weapons than their Velite enemies, including swords, not mention some of the raiders even had military training according with the Katmandu Handbook, while the Natives only had spears and knives to defend themselves, not to mention they were taller than their rivals. None of that was of any use at the end, because their leader was a complete idiot to attack the tribe with very few men and not expecting resistence from either their enemies' leadership or from their women, especially from Liska, a slave. Had them attacked the village with their entire army, rather than split forces like they did before the raid, they could had easily curb-stomped the tribe instead.
- Babies Ever After: At the end of the arc, Leah managed to give birth to triplets: Loanzah, Milpul and Kemal, with the help of Thorin's family. The same happens, thorough offscreen, with Liska after she bought back Rial from slavery.
- Bitch Slap:
- Liska gives one to Pyndan when the latter suggested her to cut Brocia, another slave's, throat, since no one like her in the first place.
- Liska herself receives one from Rial in the same issue after she freed him from slavery, since he didn't knew that she was a warrior and she was using his warrior sash.
- Going Commando: During her slavery years, Liska didn't wear any underwear, much for Rial's perverted pleasure.
- Implied Death Threat:
- When trying to buy back Rial from slavery, Liska refused Flint's offer of giving Shaygin and Elishaa back to him in exchange for Rial's freedom, which caused Flint to threatening to cut Rial's throat, as he didn't want to bring back him back to his tribe.
- Pyndan jokes about letting Flint to cut Brocia's neck as well, something that piss Liska off, slapping him as a result.
- Kimono Fanservice: In a very anachronic scene, Mother Sanna gives Liska something that looks like a combination between a bathrobe and a yukata, despite Liska and the rest of the cast being Natives with no relationship with a Wutai-like setting.
- Made a Slave:
- Liska's story begins when she was captured by Rial and Pyndan when raiding her tribe's hunting camp in the Lowlands and becaming the former and his grandmother, Mother Sanna's, slave, while trying to protect her brother and his friend Tori from them.
- In a complete exercise of Irony, Rial himself is captured and made a slave by another group of raiders, while the first one, led by Commander Arn, attacked the Highland tribe.
- A Minor Kidroduction: We see Liska and her brother as kids before the former being kidnapped by a also younger Rial and Pyndan during a raid.
- Plot Hole: This is when many of the comic's trademark problems with storytelling begins:
- When Rial slaps Liska, he accused her of using his warrior's sash. To begin with, the latter never used his sash because Rial was using his all the time when he was captured by Commander Arn's men and the one Liska received from Chief Pownetkee was completely different from Rial's one, and it's unlikely they could had found his sash anywhere because neither he and the Seneschal never left the village after the attack.
- This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: Oddly enough, Liska calls Kebec a bitch, despite there's no canines (anthropomorphic or otherwise) in the Katmandu universe.
